Starting D with a project in mind.

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On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 19:49:15 UTC, Andrew wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been writing a MUD for a little while, initially using 
> Haskell but now using C. I develop on MacOS X but deploy to a 
> Raspberry Pi. I loved using Haskell especially using the Parsec 
> parser but unfortunately I couldn't build on the Pi because the 
> resource requirements were just too heavy.
>
> Now I develop in C and the same Makefile builds on Mac and 
> Debian equally well and of course I can use the lovely Xcode 
> environment. However, as I start to add more advanced features 
> it's getting rather tedious. The MUD has an embedded web server 
> which supports web sockets for real time play and the back end 
> is a Mongo DB. The C code to access DB is very repetitive and 
> is slowing me down because of the lack of higher level 
> constructs. Similarly the parser is very basic and ropey which 
> needs attention.
>
> Hence my interest in D. I've spent a few hours trying to get 
> GDC working on my Pi which is proving to be a bitch but I'm 
> hoping that it will be worth it.
>
> Before I get too far down this path, would you recommend D for 
> this task and will porting from Mac to Pi be seamless ?

As Adam already said D on Pi is adventurous.

For MongoDB and web stuff, you should look into Vibe.d [0]. For 
parsing I would suggest Pegged [1].

Welcome to D and Happy Hacking! :)

[0] http://vibed.org/
[1] https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged